Here are some web trends for 2020:
Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things.
Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of recommendations what you learn to become a web developer in 2020.
You might have seen Web 3.0 on some slides. What is the definition of web 3 we are talking about here?
There seems to be many different to choose from… Some claim that you need to blockchain the cloud IOT otherwise you’ll just get a stack overflow in the mainframe but I don’t agree on that.
Information on the web address bar will be reduced on some web browsers. With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
You still should target to build quality web site and avoid the signs of a low-quality web site. Get good inspiration for your web site design.
Still a clear and logical structure is the first thing that needs to be turned over in mind before the work on the website gears up. The website structure for search robots is its internal links. The more links go to a page, the higher its priority within the website, and the more times the search engine crawls it.
You should upgrade your web site, but you need to do it sensibly and well. Remember that a site upgrade can ruin your search engine visibility if you do it badly. The biggest risk to your site getting free search engine visibility is site redesign. Bad technology selection can ruin the visibility of a new site months before launch. Many new sites built on JavaScript application frameworks do not benefit in any way from the new technologies. Before you go into this bandwagon, you should think critically about whether your site will benefit from the dynamic capabilities of these technologies more than they can damage your search engine visibility. Well built redirects can help you keep the most outbound links after site changes.
If you go to the JavaScript framework route on your web site, keep in mind that there are many to choose, and you need to choose carefully to find one that fits for your needs and is actively developed also in the future.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you’re not alone… a chunk of pros also feel JS is ‘overly complex’
Keep in mind the recent changes on the video players and Google analytics. And for animated content keep in mind that GIF animations exists still as a potential tool to use.
Keep in mind the the security. There is a skill gap in security for many. I’m not going to say anything that anyone who runs a public-facing web server doesn’t already know: the majority of these automated blind requests are for WordPress directories and files. PHP exploits are a distant second. And there are many other things that are automatically attacked. Test your site with security scanners.
APIs now account for 40% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps. OWASP has identified 10 areas where enterprises can lower that risk. There are many vulnerability scanning tools available. Check also How to prepare and use Docker for web pentest . Mozilla has a nice on-line tool for web site security scanning.
The slow death of Flash continues. If you still use Flash, say goodbye to it. Google says goodbye to Flash, will stop indexing Flash content in search.
Use HTTPS on your site because without it your site rating will drop on search engines visibility. It is nowadays easy to get HTTPS certificates.
Write good content and avoid publishing fake news on your site. Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy,
Think to who you are aiming to your business web site to. Analyze who is your “true visitor” or “power user”. A true visitor is a visitor to a website who shows a genuine interest in the content of the site. True visitors are the people who should get more of your site and have the potential to increase the sales and impact of your business. The content that your business offers is intended to attract visitors who are interested in it. When they show their interest, they are also very likely to be the target group of the company.
Should you think of your content management system (CMS) choice? Flexibility, efficiency, better content creation: these are just some of the promised benefits of a new CMS. Here is How to convince your developers to change CMS.
Here are some fun for the end:
Did you know that if a spider creates a web at a place?
The place is called a website
Confession: How JavaScript was made.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Keith Broni / Emojipedia:
Unicode Consortium launches version 14.0 with a total of 112 new emoji, including multiracial handshake, melting face, saluting face, and heart hands — Today the latest emoji list will be released by the Unicode Consortium, with additions including Biting Lip, Troll, Saluting Face …
What’s New in Unicode 14.0
https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-14-0/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mitä 10 000 euron moka opetti meille? Lue UKKO.fin perustaja Ollin kooste!
Testaaminen ja improvisointi kuuluvat someen – tosin joskus sitä polttaa näppinsä ja jälkikäteen kaduttaa. Esimerkkinä toimii tämä epäonnistunut markkinointikokeilumme vuodelta 2014.
Mutta aina kannattaa yrittää ja ottaa virheistä opit talteen! Me UKKO.fillä tykkäämme testata uutta, ja se on siivittänyt meidät yhdeksi nopeimmin kasvavista kasvuyrityksistä
https://www.ukko.fi/yrittajyyskoulu/nain-tuhlasimme-10-000-euroa-twitter-mainontaan/?utm_campaign=%5BYK%5D+-+Yritt%C3%A4jyyskoulu+-+post+boost+2021+-+Traffic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&hsa_acc=204827272932882&hsa_cam=6238381632667&hsa_grp=6241368435467&hsa_ad=6241368435267&hsa_src=fb&hsa_net=facebook&hsa_ver=3&fbclid=IwAR3d4NhudxT-x1C6Pwu-gkjejoIXVKBhftx3eCCwfO-TBdUL2Wd32WQT29o
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2021/09/16/so-why-are-hyperlinks-blue-anyway/
It’s important to remember that the idea of hyperlinks predates the invention of color monitors, which thickens the plot a bit. But the pivotal point seems to be Windows 3.1, released April 6th, 1992, when hyperlink blue becomes a navigational and interactive color. A year later, the April 12, 1993 release notes for Mosaic include a bullet that becomes the point of origin for blue hyperlinks:
Changed default anchor representations: blue and single solid underline for unvisited, dark purple and single dashed underline for visited.Mosaic release notes
Around the same time, the Cello browser was developed at Cornell Law, which also used blue hyperlinks. So the blue hyperlink concept was arguably browser-agnostic even before Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer came along.
The writer speculates that blue was chosen to stand out against black and white once color monitors took over, and that seems legit to us.
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Do y’all remember, before the internet, that people thought the cause of stupidity was the lack of access to information?
Yeah. It wasn’t that.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bamafangrl/status/1155293759929835520
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Maalittamisella tarkoitetaan systemaattista toimintaa, jossa virkamiehestä tai hänen läheisistään kaivetaan eri lähteistä tietoja ja pyritään niitä eri tavoin hyödyntämällä epäasiallisesti vaikuttamaan viranomaisen toimintaan.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Maalittamisella tarkoitetaan systemaattista toimintaa, jossa virkamiehestä tai hänen läheisistään kaivetaan eri lähteistä tietoja ja pyritään niitä eri tavoin hyödyntämällä epäasiallisesti vaikuttamaan viranomaisen toimintaan.”
Liippaa läheltä myös journalismia, ja rajan veto näiden välillä voi olla toisinaan hankala hahmottaa:
Tutkiva journalismi voi olla systemaattista toimintaa, jossa virkamiehestä tai hänen läheisistään kaivetaan eri lähteistä tietoja ja pyritään niitä eri tavoin hyödyntämällä paljastaa virkamiehen epäasiallisestia toimintaa ja vaikuttamaan että viranomainen lopettaisi epäasiallisen toimintansa.
Lehdistönvapaus on demokraattisen järjestelmän kulmakiviä, ja se on mukana useimpien maiden perustuslaissa. Lehdistöä on sanottu neljänneksi valtiomahdiksi Montesquieun vallan kolmijako-opin mukaan
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/jarno-koskinen/maalittamisesta-vahingonkorvausvastuu/
Maalittaminen, eli ihmisten usuttaminen toisen henkilön kimppuun on some-aikakauden ehkä irvokkaimpia ilmiötä.
Henkilöiden maalittaminen sosiaalisessa mediassa on johtanut häirintään, tekaistuihin rikosilmoituksiin, sekä henkilöiden yksityisyyden loukkaamiseen. Lisäksi maalittamisella pyritään hankaloittamaan viranomaisten virantoimitusta, sekä levittämään usein täysin perätöntä tietoa.
Viranomaiset toimivat virkavastuulla virkansa ominaisuudessa jota säätelevät lait ja asetukset, eivät yksityishenkilöinä. On älytöntä että tällaista pitää vuonna 2020 erikseen selventää.
Loukkaantumisen sietämätön keveys
Yrityksen tuotteiden arvostelu tai oman kokemuksen jakaminen omille seuraajille sosiaalisessa mediassa on täysin hyväksyttyä. Sosiaalinen media on osa markkinointia, niin hyvässä kuin pahassa. On kuitenkin täysin eri asia henkilökohtaisesti loukkaantua yksittäisen yrityksen toiminnasta, ja tietoisesti tai tiedostamatta usuttaa omat seuraajat yrittäjän kimppuun.
Some-persoonien, blogaajien, influenssereiden ja tubettajien on tunnistettava asiassa vastuunsa.
Seurasin taannoin tamperelaisen some-persoona Miisa Nuorgamin instagram -storyja hänen tuohtumuksestaan erääseen tamperelaiseen yrittäjään. Myöhemmin kuulin toisaalta että kyseinen yrittäjä oli ajettu ahtaalle, ja yritys oli kärsinyt merkittävää mainehaittaa. Kuten kaikki tiedämme, mainehaitta tarkoittaa euroja, ja eurot yrittäjälle toimeentuloa.
Syy tähän; yrityksen tiloissa ollut intiaanipäähine.
Oli miten oli, julkisesta loanheitosta ja haitanteosta on oltava laissa säädetty seuraamus. Tälle kaikelle tekisi tietenkin mieli nauraa, jos ei se olisi niin perkeleen absurdia.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.jco.fi/animoitu-logo-valittaa-tunteita-ja-jaa-mieleen/?fbclid=IwAR15UQXHtDaJdVx_LVYxS7gNqI7YP88sujYzoiZCunc_Othed9JZm9MKB7k
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Freedom Hosting admin gets 27 years in prison for hosting child pornography https://therecord.media/freedom-hosting-admin-gets-27-years-in-prison-for-hosting-child-pornography/
An Irish man who ran a cheap dark web hosting service has been sentenced today to 27 years in prison for turning a blind eye to customers hosting child sex abuse material.
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Pew Research Center:
Survey: 47% of US Facebook users regularly get news on the platform, down from 54% in 2020; 29% of US TikTok users regularly get news from the app, up from 22%
News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021
More than half of Twitter user get news on the site regularly
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/09/20/news-consumption-across-social-media-in-2021/
As social media and technology companies face criticism for not doing enough to stem the flow of misleading information on their platforms, a sizable portion of Americans continue to turn to these sites for news. A little under half (48%) of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” a 5 percentage point decline compared with 2020, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted July 26-Aug. 8, 2021.1
Nearly a third of Americans regularly get news on Facebook
When it comes to where Americans regularly get news on social media, Facebook outpaces all other social media sites.
asking users of 10 social media sites whether they regularly get news there, about a third of U.S. adults (31%) say they get news regularly on Facebook, while about one-in-five Americans (22%) say they regularly get news on YouTube. Twitter and Instagram are regular news sources for 13% and 11% of Americans, respectively.
Other social media sites are less likely to be regular news sources. Fewer than one-in-ten Americans say they regularly get news from Reddit (7%), TikTok (6%), LinkedIn (4%), Snapchat (4%), WhatsApp (3%) and Twitch (1%).
The percentage of Americans who get news regularly from these sites has remained largely unchanged since 2020, though the share who regularly get news on Facebook has declined slightly (36% in 2020 vs. 31% in 2021).
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The Oversight Board wants Facebook to explain its controversial rules for VIPs
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/21/the-oversight-board-wants-facebook-to-explain-its-controversial-rules-for-vips/?tpcc=ECFB2021
The Oversight Board is pushing Facebook to provide more information on its controversial “cross-check” system, following a report that the company has allowed celebrities, politicians and other public figures to break its rules.
“In light of recent developments, we are looking into the degree to which Facebook has been fully forthcoming in its responses in relation to cross-check, including the practice of whitelisting,” the board said in a statement. “We expect to receive a briefing from Facebook in the coming days and will be reporting what we hear from this as part of our first release of quarterly transparency reports which we will publish in October.”
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David Pierce / Protocol:
Read-later apps, pioneered by Instapaper and Pocket, are having a resurgence led by Matter, Upnext, and others, which improve discoverability and other features
Spotify for readers: How tech is inventing better ways to read the internet
The market for read-later apps is heating up again, and the apps are much smarter this time.
https://www.protocol.com/read-later-apps
The internet, as a reading experience, is mostly terrible. The heavy pages riddled with ads and trackers, the unexpected pop-ups, the bespoke designs that in too many places end up broken. Over the years, many have tried to fix this problem — Google with AMP, Facebook with Instant Articles — and none have succeeded. It can often feel like things just keep getting worse.
Ben Springwater certainly felt like things were getting worse. In 2016, he was working at Nextdoor, lamenting with one of his colleagues, Rob Mackenzie, that reading on the internet was so complicated. The reading experience was part of the problem, but so was the internet’s unlimited supply of stuff. “It completely boggles the mind that so much of this stuff is really excellent, this life-changing stuff we could read,” Springwater said. But there’s only so much time in the day. “So we have filters: We go to Twitter, we check the headlines or what comes into our inbox. But those decisions for most of us are really suboptimal, relative to the potential of what we could be reading.”
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Despite passing a tough hate speech law, researchers say social networks in Germany are flooded with hate speech and harassment ahead of an election on Sept. 26
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/technology/online-hate-speech-germany.html
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David Pierce / Protocol:
Read-later apps, pioneered by Instapaper and Pocket, are having a resurgence led by Matter, Upnext, and others, which improve discoverability and other features — The internet, as a reading experience, is mostly terrible. The heavy pages riddled with ads and trackers, the unexpected pop-ups …
Spotify for readers: How tech is inventing better ways to read the internet
The market for read-later apps is heating up again, and the apps are much smarter this time.
https://www.protocol.com/read-later-apps
Tomi Engdahl says:
Engineers figured out how to cook 3D-printed chicken with lasers
Setup can’t synthesize complete meals like the Star Trek replicator, but it’s a start
https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/22/google_emits_chrome_94_with/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://korner.fi/blog/kun-toimittaja-soittaa-naiden-vinkkien-avulla-onnistut-haastattelussa/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://dev.to/brayanarrieta/new-javascript-features-ecmascript-2021-with-examples-3hfm
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://deliciousinsights.github.io/confoo-es2022/#/mainTitle
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.microsoft.com/fi-fi/microsoft-365/free-office-online-for-the-web
Tomi Engdahl says:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Headless-ratkaisut:
Terävintä kärkeä vai päätöntä kohellusta?
https://www.devisioona.fi/2021/08/headless-arkkitehtuuri/
Eräs verkkopalveluiden kehitystä viime vuosina keikuttanut trendi on ollut headless-järjestelmiin perustuvat palvelut. Termi esiintyy tyypillisesti julkaisujärjestelmien ja verkkokauppojen yhteydessä. Mistä on kyse, ja mitä ilmiöstä pitäisi tietää?
Tomi Engdahl says:
Technically, we are all web browsers.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Gilad Edelman / Wired:
The social media industry needs its own version of journalism’s firewall to shield safety, moderation, and enforcement decisions from execs focused on growth
What Social Media Needs to Learn From Traditional Media
https://www.wired.com/story/what-social-media-needs-to-learn-from-traditional-media/
Government regulation will never fix everything wrong with online discourse. The industry needs to develop professional norms—just as journalism once did.
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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Facebook’s history of comparing itself to older, widely accepted tools like chairs and cars shows how its leaders deploy analogies to downplay criticism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/24/facebook-instagram-mosseri-cars/
Tomi Engdahl says:
UK marketing-led group takes antitrust complaint against Google’s Privacy Sandbox to the EU
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/28/uk-marketing-led-group-takes-antitrust-complaint-against-googles-privacy-sandbox-to-the-eu/?tpcc=ECFB2021
A coalition of digital marketing firms and others has taken its lobbying against Google’s plan to phase out tracking cookies — by replacing them with alternative technologies which the tech giant claims will protect user privacy — to the European Union, lodging a formal complaint with the bloc’s antitrust regulators.
The self-styled ‘Movement for an Open Web’ (MOW), as the opaque group pushing the complaint is now called (RIP ‘Marketers for an Open Web’), put out a press release announcing the move today — and claiming it has provided the Commission with “evidence of Google’s technology changes, how they impact choice and competition”, and offered some “potential remedies”.
https://movementforanopenweb.com/calls-on-eu-to-curb-googles-anti-competitive-behaviour/
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Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
Russia threatens to block YouTube unless it restores two of RT’s German-language channels that it banned for COVID-19 misinformation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/29/russia-ban-youtube-german-coronavirus/
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
CNN restricts access to its Facebook Pages in Australia after a ruling that makes news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook posts — Company said it wants to avoid liability for user comments following Australian court ruling — CNN said it has restricted access …
CNN Restricts Access to Facebook Pages in Australia
Company said it wants to avoid liability for user comments following Australian court ruling
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cnn-restricts-access-to-facebook-pages-in-australia-11632868267?mod=djemalertNEWS
CNN said it has restricted access to its Facebook Inc. FB -3.66% pages in Australia following a ruling from that country’s high court that makes news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook posts.
Facebook users in Australia will no longer have access to major pages run by the network, including its primary Facebook page, its CNN International page and pages dedicated to its shows, a CNN spokeswoman said.
CNN, a unit of AT&T Inc.’s WarnerMedia, appears to be the first major U.S. media organization to publicly restrict Australian access to its Facebook pages following a ruling this month from the High Court of Australia that made news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook pages.
The court ruled that media companies facilitated and encouraged comments from users by creating public Facebook pages and posting content on them. According to the court, media companies are responsible for any defamatory content that appears on them because they are considered publishers of the comments.
After that ruling, CNN asked Facebook whether it would consider helping news organizations disable comments on all of their pages in Australia to avoid potential legal risks, according to a person close to CNN. Facebook declined to disable all comments on CNN’s pages in Australia and instead offered to help CNN disable comments on its posts one by one, the person said.
Tomi Engdahl says:
After YouTube bans RT due to multiple violations, Russia threatens to ban video platform
https://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wionews.com%2Fworld%2Fafter-youtube-bans-rt-due-to-multiple-violations-russia-warns-to-ban-video-platform-416785&h=AT1TgyYAOfQceX_vJD4crGZ4EsHQfAPK2Loi_mYaG95wqB_ANGyhNtTvb-gibWxF_zg0ppZ0RbYfZlL2f6n6gJHzagple-4GUljw12AlgmoPwfjYh2GqaYeIN0TsiNgJuw
The app has over 2 billion active monthly users. It generates a huge revenue of $15.15 billion. The company was founded in 2005.
The German-language channel of Russia Today (RT) has been blocked by YouTube due to allegations of misinformation on coronavirus. Now as a subtle revenge, Russia has threatened to ban YouTube in the country.
RT is Russia’s state-controlled television network and very popular in the Putin-led country. RT was recently alleged to be spreading misinformation related to coronavirus, especially in Germany.
The channel had received one strike by YouTube earlier. As a result of this the media house was not allowed to post any new content on the video platform for at least a week.
However, RT decided to play it smart and use a loophole. The channel used an alternate account titled “Der Fehlende Part” to post content.
YouTube’s action has angered RT and the Editor-in-Chief, Margarita Simonyan, had called this a “real media war declared by the state of Germany to the state of Russia”.
She also reported that “earlier, Luxembourg refused to grant us a broadcasting license, citing the opinion of the German authorities.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ben Rubin explains why the Web3 era of social media will help everybody get paid
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/29/what-is-web3-disrupt-ben-rubin/?tpcc=ecfb2020
Content creators (arguably either a special echelon of influencers or anyone who posts online) are slowly siphoning off some of the power that social media companies have wielded for years. Meanwhile, decentralization is sweeping worlds like finance and art, threatening existing orders and pointing toward a future defined by alternative currencies and digital collectibles. Those trends are bound to converge sooner rather than later, and in some corners of the social internet, it’s already beginning to show.
These days, everyone seems to be abuzz about decentralization. As with any nascent tech trend on the horizon, a lot of jargon gets thrown around. Within the DeFi (decentralized finance) and NFT (non-fungible token) communities, Web3 is the term du jour that captures the revolutionary potential that decentralized networks hold for the future of the internet.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mitä on server-side tagging?
https://www.hopkins.fi/artikkelit/mita-on-server-side-tagging/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_campaign=evergreen-artikkelit-liikenne-kiinnostukset&utm_content=sstagging-pagepost&fbclid=IwAR017zG3483g16SLtBdUpjtBnx7xfMddqKspvJI4Qlb6kffAoICEqvok_ic
Server-side tagging on uusi teknologia, jossa seurantakoodit suoritetaan palvelimella (server-side) – eikä selaimessa.
Vanha tapa on ajaa nämä web-analytiikan ja mainosjärjestelmien koodinpätkät käyttäjän selaimessa (client side), mikä hidastaa sivujen latausta ja lyhentää evästeiden elinkää.
Pidempi keskimääräinen elinikä 1. osapuolen evästeille on server-side taggingin keskeisimpiä hyötyjä. Nämä evästeet ovat tärkeitä web-analytiikassa ja konversioseurannassa: kun käyttäjältä on saatu suostumus, ne mahdollistavat saman selaimen seurannan, vaikka käyttäjä tekisi useita vierailuja.
Sivusto myös toimii nopeammin, kun käyttäjän selainta ja nettiyhteyttä ei kuormiteta seurantakoodien lataamisella ja suorittamisella.
Server-side tagging käytännössä
Google lanseerasi vuonna 2020 mahdollisuuden ajaa Google Tag Manager -säilöjä palvelimella (server-side). Koska Google Tag Manager on jo valmiiksi ylivoimaisesti suosituin tägienhallinnan järjestelmä, sen server-side-versio saavuttaa luultavasti saman aseman.
Käytännössä alkuun pääsee sillä, että Google Tag Manageria varten järjestetään erillinen pilvipalvelin. Siihen ohjataan A/AAAA DNS-tietuein oman verkkotunnuksen alidomain, kuten seuranta.hopkins.fi, jotta seuranta tapahtuu 1. osapuolen kontekstissa.
Helpointa on ostaa palvelintila Google Cloud Platform -palvelusta. Normaalille sivustolle riittävä palvelinkapasiteetti maksaa reilusta 100 eurosta muutamaan sataan euroon kuussa, riippuen liikennemääristä.
Milloin server-side tagging kannattaa ottaa käyttöön?
Kun ostoprosessit ovat pidempiä, server-side tagging estää käyttäjien historiaa nollaantumasta ja mahdollistaa asiakaspolkujen analyysin ja luotettavamman tulosseurannan mainonnassa.
Tietosuojasta ja datan kontrollista tarkat organisaatiot turvaavat datan yksityisyyden ja laadun jo keräysvaiheessa: tieto seurattavista asioista ei vuoda käyttäjän selaimeen ja dataa voidaan siistiä ja rikastaa ennen sen lähettämistä eteenpäin.
Vahvasti käyttökokemukseen panostaville server-side tagging on yksi osa laajempaa sivuston nopeuttamisen kokonaisuutta.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sijoitusmaailman feikkigurut – taustalla terveyshuuhaa, new age ja jenkkien uskonnolliset saarnaajat
https://miljonaariksi25vuodessa.com/sijoitusmaailman-feikkigurut-taustalla-terveyshuuhaa-new-age-ja-jenkkien-uskonnolliset-saarnaajat/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNOlqzMd2Zw
Tomi Engdahl says:
Facebookin kohdennukset: Näin tavoitat sinulle tärkeät yleisöt
https://www.mediashake.fi/facebookin-kohdennukset-nain-tavoitat-sinulle-tarkeat-yleisot
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.karhuhelsinki.fi/blogi/miten-palvelinymparistolla-voidaan-tehda-verkkosivuista-paremmat
Tomi Engdahl says:
Facebookin skandaali syvenee, ilmiantaja astui esiin “valitsee ennemmin tuotot kuin ihmisten turvallisuuden”
https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/tv/ed2d6dde-58e9-4120-93f1-3804a96929f1
Facebookin sisäisiä dokumentteja vuotanut ilmiantaja astui viikonloppuna julkisuuteen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Näin paljon Facebookin kaatuminen maksoi
Facebookin Mark Zuckerberg putosi maailman rikkaimpien listalla Bill Gatesin taakse.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/b6a6d464-0fb3-4781-a49b-2b7b48535b7b
Facebookin perustaja Mark Zuckerberg köyhtyi noin 5,2 miljardia euroa, kun yhtiön sosiaalisen median palvelut pimenivät tuntien ajaksi maanantaina.
Asiasta kertoo Bloomberg.
Samalla Zuckerbergin omaisuuden arvo laski noin 105 miljardiin dollariin, mikä pudotti hänet Bloombergin miljardöörien listalla viidenneksi Microsoftin perustajan Bill Gatesin taakse.
Zuckerberg omistaa Facebookista Forbesin mukaan noin 14 prosenttia.
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Pääkirjoitus: Yhden somejätin varaan rakennettu viestintä on liian haavoittuvaa
https://www.iltalehti.fi/paakirjoitus/a/85356f37-687c-49bb-94b9-c0e736632a4a
Facebookin käyttökatko näytti, miten haavoittuvaa yhden somejätin varaan rakennettu viestintä on. Riippuvuus on myös kyseenalaista, koska yhtiö tekee voittoa ihmisten turvallisuuden kustannuksella, kirjoittaa Kreeta Karvala.
Analytiikkayhtiön mukaan Facebook menetti miljoonien dollarien mainostulot, kun sen omistamissa sosiaalisen median palveluissa oli laajoja ongelmia maanantai-illasta tiistaiyöhön.
Poikkeuksellinen käyttökatko tarkoitti sitä, etteivät Facebookin, Instagramin, Whatsappin ja Messengerin palvelut toimineet.
Monille kuluttajille pakollinen sometauko näytti, miten riippuvaisia olemme yhden amerikkalaisen somejätin palveluista. Käyttökatko näytti myös sen, miten usein hakeudumme etsimään rentoutusta, viihdettä, viestintää ja vahvistusta ilmaisina pidetyiltä some-alustoilta, joille miljardit kuluttajat ovat luovuttaneet niin paljon omia tietojaan, että Facebook voi tehdä niillä rahaa mainontaa kohdentamalla.
Facebookille käyttökatkoakin pahempi mainehaitta lienevät julkisuuteen vuodetut tiedot, joiden mukaan yhtiö on tietoinen demokratialle ja yhteiskuntarauhalle aiheuttamistaan ongelmista, mutta ei välitä niistä, koska taloudellinen etu ajaa ohi.
Tuoreiden vuotojen taustalla on Facebookin entinen tuotepäällikkö Frances Haugen, jonka medialle välittämistä asiakirjoista käy ilmi, että Facebook on tietoinen siitä, että yhtiön sovelluksissa leviää algoritmin siivittämänä vihapuhe, kärjistävä poliittinen puhe sekä valeuutiset, jotka vaikuttavat yhteiskuntiin haitallisesti ympäri maailman.
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Aalto-yliopiston professorilta raju näkemys some-katkosta: “Facebook on länsimaiden suurin uhka demokratialle”
Yhteisöpalvelu Facebookin poikkeuksellisen pitkä käyttökatkos sai monet mietteliäiksi.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/757ad4f0-845e-4821-84b2-a7b2c2f4a63e
Facebookin muutaman tunnin käyttökatkos oli tietoverkkotekniikan professorin mielestä hyvä asia.
Hänen mukaansa Facebook on suuri uhka länsimaiselle demokratialle.
Ilmaisia, mainosdatalla tuottonsa keräävien yritysten palveluita ei välttämättä kannata käyttää.
Aalto-yliopiston tietoverkkotekniikan professori Raimo Kantola huomauttaa, ettei eilisellä Facebookin käyttökatkoksella ole isossa kuvassa mitään merkitystä.
Kantola sanoo Iltalehdelle, että eilinen käyttökatkos oli vakavuudeltaan lähinnä ihmisten subjektiivisen kokemuksen varainen asia. Kysymys on siitä, mikä Facebookin, Instagramin ja Whatsappin tarve ja merkitys yhteiskunnassa on.
– Laajemmasta näkökulmasta katsoen on vain hyvä, että tulee tällainen katkos. Se pysäyttää vähän miettimään, mihin kukin aikaansa käyttää.
Professorin mukaan esimerkiksi Instagramissa ei välitetä tietoa, joka olisi elämälle välttämätöntä. Kyse on ennen kaikkea viihteestä.
Hän kuitenkin korostaa, että välttämättömyydestäkin on erilaisia teorioita, ja se on osittain subjektiivinen kokemus. Laajemmasta yhteiskunnallisesta näkökulmasta katsottuna Facebookin omistamissa palveluissa Kantola ei kuitenkaan näe mitään välttämätöntä.
– Jos kulkee koko elämänsä silmät kiinni älypuhelimessa, Facebookin algoritmit ovat voittaneet sinut.
Uhka demokratialle
Facebookin algoritmi toimii keräten tietoja ihmisistä. Kerätyn tiedon perusteella se profiloi ihmiset ja kategorisoi, mikä häntä kiinnostaa ja miten ihmistä voisi manipuloida.
– Algoritmi ei välitä sivun sisällöstä, vaan sen tehtävä on maksimoida silmäparien määrä sivustolla ja manipuloida ihminen ostamaan mitä tahansa asioita.
Kantola kuvaa yhteisöpalvelua internet-aikakauden mainostelevisioksi. Hänen mielestään ei kannata altistaa itseään manipulaatiolle. Jos jotain tarvitsee, on parempi etsiä siitä tietoa silloin kuin sitä tarvitsee.
Professorin mielestä nimenomaan Facebook on uhka länsimaiselle demokratialle. Hän mainitsee Donald Trumpin valinnan Yhdysvaltain presidentiksi sekä Britannian EU-eron esimerkkeinä siitä, miten ihmisten mielipiteisiin on voitu vaikuttaa sosiaalisen median kanavien, eritoten Facebookin, kautta.
– Länsimaissa suurin uhka demokratialle ei ole Kiina, vaan se on Facebook. Valheet leviävät sosiaalisessa mediassa viisi kertaa nopeammin kuin totuus. Facebookin luoma algoritmi toimii täydellisenä totalitaarisen yhteiskunnan manipulointikoneistona, tarvitaan vain taho, joka haluaa hyödyntää sitä, Kantola sanoo.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on putting profit before safety: ‘That’s just not true’
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-on-putting-profit-before-safety-thats-just-not-true/
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly addressed claims that the social media giant prioritises profit over safety and wellbeing is “just not true”. “We care deeply about issues like safety, wellbeing, and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives. At the most basic level, I think most of us just don’t recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted, ” Zuckerberg wrote in note to Facebook employees that he publicly posted on his Facebook page.
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Firefox 93 Improves Protection Against Tracking, Insecure Downloads
https://www.securityweek.com/firefox-93-improves-protection-against-tracking-insecure-downloads
Mozilla this week released Firefox 93 to the stable channel with several security improvements, including better privacy protections, patches, and anti-tracking capabilities.
Starting with Firefox 93, the browser blocks insecure HTTP downloads on encrypted (HTTPS) pages, to keep users safe from potentially unwanted or even malicious downloads.
Given that data transmitted over HTTP isn’t protected, attackers able to intercept that data could not only view it, but also tamper with it. Thus, attackers could potentially replace files downloaded over HTTP with malicious ones, which could lead to full system compromise.
Firefox 93 now blocks such insecure file downloads and prompts the user to stop the download and remove the file, while also offering the choice to continue with the download.
The browser now also blocks downloads in sandboxed iframes, to prevent instances where malicious content could initiate a drive-by download from the sandbox. Thus, unless the sandboxed content has the ‘allow-downloads’ attribute, Firefox will prevent such downloads.
After disabling older iterations of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol last year, Firefox now closes the door on 3DES, a popular encryption algorithm that is nothing more than an adaptation of the Data Encryption Standard.
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen’s claims don’t make sense — I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it’s been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/i-wanted-to-share-a-note-i-wrote-to-everyone-at-our-company-hey-everyone-its-bee/10113961365418581/
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Facebook has begun limiting internal info sharing and paused product rollouts in recent days as employees conduct “reputational reviews” — Social-media company puts hold on some work for existing products while it addresses blowback from whistleblower, lawmakers
Facebook Slows New Products for ‘Reputational Reviews’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-slows-new-products-for-reputational-reviews-11633535983?mod=djemalertNEWS
Social-media company puts on hold some work for existing products while it addresses blowback from whistleblower, lawmakers
Facebook Inc. has delayed the rollout of new products in recent days, people familiar with the matter said, amid media reports and congressional hearings related to a trove of internal documents showing harms from its platforms.
Executives at the social-media company also have put a hold on some work on new and existing products while more than a dozen people are involved in conducting “reputational reviews” to examine how Facebook may be criticized and to ensure products don’t adversely impact children, the people said.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he has asked leaders to do deep dives on work across the company over the next few days and committed to continuing research into the company’s products.
“I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the kinds of experiences I want my kids and others to have online, and it’s very important to me that everything we build is safe and good for kids,” he wrote.
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Facebook’s political problems stem from its goal to connect people and its focus on growth, and are societal issues, not antitrust ones
https://stratechery.com/2021/facebook-political-problems/
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Ali Breland / Mother Jones:
During her testimony, Frances Haugen offered only weak remedies for Facebook’s failures and specifically opposed breaking up the company
The Facebook Whistleblower Doesn’t Have the Solution
Revolving-door regulators never made anything better.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/the-facebook-whistleblower-doesnt-have-the-solution/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
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Leaks are generally good. Transparency of powerful institutions is generally good. The person, or people, who provide them are generally doing a noble thing. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who leaked a damning trove of the social media’s internal documents, is no exception.
The files that she helped bring to light in the Wall Street Journal show Facebook’s own knowledge and deception about matters that the company’s critics had long suspected. Its applications contributed to teens’ mental health problems—something the company knew but misled Congress about. Facebook said its rules were equally applied but that Facebook privately drew special carveouts for high-profile figures. The company rolled back protections that it had put in place after the election, just in time to help the spread of disinformation and violent rhetoric ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot. The list goes on.
During a hearing with members of the Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday, senators asked Haugen several times for suggestions about what to do. Haugen’s answers included some incredibly weak tea:
Establish a Facebook policy “on how to share information and research from inside the company to appropriate oversight bodies like Congress.”
Have the company reinstitute “soft interventions that were implemented to protect the 2020 election,” akin to Twitter’s prompt for users to read a link before sharing it.
Create a “regulatory home [within the Federal government] where someone like me can do a tour of duty after working at place like this, and have a place to work on things like regulation,” because, as Haugen argued in the hearing, the people who can work on these issues best are those who have been inside the companies.
As Daniel Hanley, an analyst at the left-leaning think-tank Open Markets, pointed out on Twitter, none of these solutions would change the structures that produced Facebook and all of the problems it has created. Indeed, she specifically argued against structural solutions like breaking up Facebook.
Facebook’s own lobbyists couldn’t have come up with a better answer than the one Haugen proposed about having former Facebook staffers work in a special government unit that would regulate Facebook. This is known as a “revolving door”—a corporate dream and a nightmare for everyone else.
If you believe that Facebook is producing significant harm, the solutions that follow should probably be significant as well. As Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, told me, rectifying Facebook’s invasive privacy practices could require “a privacy law strong enough to effectively kill Facebook’s current business model.”
“It’s hard to directly regulate algorithms, but Congress can make it illegal for companies like Facebook and YouTube to harvest the massive amount of data they use to fuel those algorithms,” Greer suggested, referring to Haugen’s warnings on how Facebook’s algorithms lead people to harmful content.
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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Survey of 1,200 US adults: 66% view Facebook favorably, down from 71% in 2020, compared to 79% for Apple (down 2%), 87% for Amazon (down 4%), and 90% for Google
Verge Tech Survey 2021
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22702798/verge-tech-survey-2021-trust-privacy-security-facebook-amazon-google-apple-pandemic?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
After a year of the pandemic, we asked Americans if their trust in big tech companies has changed — and if the biggest ones should be broken up
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Kahdeksan kysymystä ja vastausta Pandoran papereista eli uudesta jättimäisestä tietovuodosta
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12126521
Ylen MOT-toimitus on ollut ainoana suomalaismediana mukana tutkimassa tietovuotoa, joka paljastaa uutta tietoa siitä, miten vaikutusvaltaiset tahot hyödyntävät salaisia veroparatiisijärjestelyjä.
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Blair, Shakira ja Putinin sisäpiiri – maailman suurimmasta tietovuodosta löytyy poliitikkojen lisäksi monen alan maailmantähtiä
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12126500
Ylen MOT-toimitus on ollut mukana tutkimassa laajaa tietovuotoa, joka paljastaa paljon uutta tietoa sekä poliittista valtaa käyttävien että muiden vaikutusvaltaisten henkilöiden toiminnasta veroparatiiseissa.
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Kuka seuraa sinua netissä?
https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10001278
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Facebook back online after more than 6 hours, Mark Zuckerberg loses $6 billion as result of outage
A meme-heavy day
https://www.techspot.com/news/91574-facebook-back-online-after-more-than-6-hours.html
What just happened? In a classic case of never thinking things can get any worse, under-pressure Facebook and its suite of apps have just had their worst outage since 2019. It took almost six hours for the issues to be resolved, during which time the internet was flooded with memes, and Mark Zuckerberg lost over $6 billion.
The problems started on Monday just before noon ET when people began reporting that they couldn’t access Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp—even the Oculus app and website were impacted. It would be almost six hours before regular service resumed.
The problems didn’t only affect Facebook’s apps. The company said it also impacted many of its internal tools and communication systems. There were reports of employees unable to get into Facebook’s offices because their passcards weren’t working. Several told The Verge that they had to resort to using their Outlook email accounts to communicate with colleagues. Those who tried to log into work tools such as Google Docs using their email addresses also found they were locked out. The problems meant diagnosing and fixing the problem took even longer.
Facebook has now apologized for the outage and explained what went wrong. It says a configuration change to the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between the company’s data centers was to blame. Cloudflare senior vice president Dane Knecht tweeted that Facebook’s border gateway protocol (BGP) routes, which find the best path to deliver traffic, were suddenly “withdrawn from the internet.”